A Photo That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War
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A Photo That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War
McMahon shifted that It really introduced a set of moral questions
that would increasingly shape debate about the Vietnam War: Is our presence in Vietnam legitimate or just, and are we conducting the war in a way that is moral?
Michelle Nickerson said that It hit people in the gut in a way that only a visual text can do,
Susan said that You can talk about ‘the execution photograph from the Vietnam War,’ and not just the generation who lived through it
but multiple generations can call that image to mind,
Robert J. McMahon said that fed into a developing narrative in the wake of the Tet offensive
that the Vietnam War was looking more and more like an unwin
"The photo translated the news of Tet in a way that you can’t quantify in terms of how many people were, at
that moment, turned against the war." The execution happened on Feb. 1, 1968, two days after Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces launched the coordinated attacks of the Tet offensive.
McMahon shifted that It really introduced a set of moral questions
that would increasingly shape debate about the Vietnam War: Is our presence in Vietnam legitimate or just, and are we conducting the war in a way that is moral?
Michelle Nickerson said that It hit people in the gut in a way that only a visual text can do,
Susan said that You can talk about ‘the execution photograph from the Vietnam War,’ and not just the generation who lived through it
but multiple generations can call that image to mind,
Robert J. McMahon said that fed into a developing narrative in the wake of the Tet offensive
that the Vietnam War was looking more and more like an unwin
"The photo translated the news of Tet in a way that you can’t quantify in terms of how many people were, at
that moment, turned against the war." The execution happened on Feb. 1, 1968, two days after Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces launched the coordinated attacks of the Tet offensive.